Question about VR, has someone used a good VR headset to kind of cure/reduce mountain vertigo?
I reduced my own with training but one of our son has it pretty hard and if VR sessions (or whatever the name is) could help reduce it, I would be ready to invest.
Well it's extremely easy to recreate vertigo in VR (one of the Vive demos back in the day was walking on a plank hanging off a building that felt 99% real), so it should be very doable.
This is the vertigo I want to "cure". But interestingly, you can trigger it with from a limited height, like just 5m. This limited height "trigger" is what I used to improve my own. I did a lot of indoor climbing and outdoor tree climbing "adventure" parks. But if a VR headset could accelerate these improvements by tricking my brain, I would be interested.
I will ask friends having such headsets to test them. Thank you.
I know someone with vertigo, it has nothing at all to do with height, as far as I am aware and also what I have seen online. If it does have to do with heights I suspect it is a change in air pressure aggravating it? But maybe there is more than one "vertigo". I might be wrong. Not a doctor!
> It's the sensation that you, or the environment around you, is moving or spinning.
Hmm I guess in that case then VR in general is the vertigo simulator regardless of what content is being played. Inner ear accelerometer disparity with the game world is guaranteed and something that makes some people hurl a lot.
I can't comment on whether it would reduce your vertigo but the Quest has mountain climbing games eg The Climb 1&2, and intentionally vertigo inducing challenges like Richie's Plank Experience
I reduced my own with training but one of our son has it pretty hard and if VR sessions (or whatever the name is) could help reduce it, I would be ready to invest.